From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753339AbaHTM3O (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:29:14 -0400 Received: from 251.110.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.110.251]:50990 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752701AbaHTM3M (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:29:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:29:02 +0100 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Andreas Mohr , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik , Jiri Kosina Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] SOUND: kill gameport bits Message-ID: <20140820132902.7eed767f@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20140820024638.GA25240@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <20140820051815.GA1109@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20140820063130.GA11226@core.coreip.homeip.net> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > It's the gameport core code that is currently broken under some > situation, right? If so, marking it as broken is the first step, and > we don't need to touch else. We may fix it later, or we may not. If > the thing isn't improved, then we can drop the whole stuff. It's only broken on x86 with frequency changing. x86 is not the only platform with ISA or PCI bus or gameports. It really ought to go via staging, and the other arch maintainers be asked. The m68k and mips world does include a department of relics and retro-computing 8) I suspect nobody cares however. Alan